Melgaço
City Statistics
Population
8800
Area
238.35 km²
District
Viana do Castelo
NUTS II
Norte
Category Breakdown
Performance across 6 scoring categories
People & Families
6.7 / 20
Economy & Jobs
7.1 / 20
Housing & Cost
10.0 / 20
Governance
8.0 / 20
Environment
6.0 / 20
News Radar
4.5 / 20
Top Scoring Drivers
Key indicators affecting this city's score
Crimes Against Companion Animals
0
Data from 2025
P100
RSI Beneficiaries
41
Data from 2025
P96
PM2.5 Annual Average
4,9 µg/m³
Data from 2025
P95
Average Annual Temperature
11.1°C
Data from 2025
P0
Population Sustainability Index
1.13
Data from 2024
P2
Working-Age Population (%)
49.2%
Data from 2024
P2
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Land classes, constraints and building rules for the concelho.
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City Strategy
Knowledge-base coverage
What a Foral Terra report for this municipality can decide today, and what it withholds.
Coverage of this analysis: between 7% and 14%
- · Land applicability to be confirmed
- · Document available — needs validation
- · Document available — needs validation — Agricultural support
These open questions could change the conclusion.
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- · Document available — needs validation — Agriculture
- · Document available — needs validation — Commerce
- · Document available — needs validation — Equipment
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing extension
- · Document available — needs validation — New housing
- · Document available — needs validation — Housing reconstruction
- · Document available — needs validation — Industry
- · Document available — needs validation — Rural tourism in an existing building
- · Document available — needs validation — Tourist housing in an existing building
- · Document available — needs validation — New hotel
See sources and details
No published framework has been confirmed for any of the 11 menu operations.
Next scheduled review: 2027-01-16. This is an internal review date, not a legal validity date: the law can change before it.
Per operation
- Agricultural support — Partial evidence
- Agriculture — Partial evidence
- Commerce — Partial evidence
- Equipment — Needs confirmation
- Housing extension — Partial evidence
- New housing — Partial evidence
- Housing reconstruction — Needs confirmation
- Industry — Partial evidence
- Rural tourism in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- Tourist housing in an existing building — Needs confirmation
- New hotel — Partial evidence
This municipality's own plan text
4 document version(s) with 269 citable provisions.
- · This release was assembled automatically and has not been reviewed by an operator.